Tag: design thinking for lawyers

As my part of my final day in Amsterdam – it was my great pleasure to join with my friends from the Dutch Law Firm – Kennedy Van Der Laan(co-founded by the Mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan) for a Legal Innovation Event. The event combined sessions in data, technology and design thinking for a variety of European General Counsels.

“Our exclusive audience will be a deliberate mix of private practice lawyers, corporate legal champions, public sector standouts, senior knowledge and technology personnel, representatives from the emerging and evolving areas of legal pricing, process improvement, project management and service delivery enhancement, – and educators from leading institutions. We believe that at events such as this one, the best knowledge sharing comes from a delegate community whose job titles have been “mixed up to fix it up”.

We’re pleased to confirm that we have assembled a unique speaking faculty to bring you lessons from both inside and outside of the legal industry. These voices represent consumers and suppliers of legal services, scholars, and individuals dedicated to social justice.

Representatives from a vast range of organizations will present on the day, sharing their experiences on a variety of successes and failures. Delegates will share insights on emerging trends and issues, discuss real successes and failures, and absorb opportunities to transform the practice of law. We aim to give you the inspiration to do something different when you return to work.” Learn More Here – http://chicago.jandersdean.com/

Lets face it – legal systems are complex. They are complex for the sophisticated players and even more complex for the average citizen. Complexity is the problem and the question which has been at the center of some of our recent work (see here) is how best to mediate that complexity.

For long periods of time, clients and legal stakeholders have dealt with complexity by allocating human capital to the problem. However, there are other tools/methods that might be employed to mediate legal complexity.

Reducing legal complexity is a question of information engineering and it is a question of design. Legal systems need a user interface such as the one displayed above. They need UI/UX. This is a major thrust of behind design thinking for lawyers and this is will be a major thrust of work (undertaken by lawyers and non-lawyers) over the coming years. Stay tuned!

On October 11 (@Stanford d.school) and October 12 (San Francisco) – 2013 Legal Rebel & Stanford d.school fellow Margaret Hagan helped run perhaps the first of what will hopefully be many legal design jams. Here are her five insights from running the event. If you want details about the upcoming events or if you want to host a jam – contact stefania.passera (at) aalto.fi

#ReInvent Law London 2013 will be an open, crowd-sourced conference! Talks will be submitted by the public and then those proposals will be voted upon by the public. Anyone can pitch a topic, and everyone can vote.

Here are the rules:

1. Submit your 300-word or 30-second-YouTube-video pitch at www.ReInventLawLondon.com between now and midnight on April 5, 2013.

2. Vote for your favorite pitch when the voting window opens in early April. One person, one vote—but feel free to use Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to encourage colleagues, friends, family and more to vote for your pitch.

3. Talks must relate to some aspect of law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship. This is about big ideas—no sales pitches or product pushing.

4. Winners will have up to 10 minutes to speak, and will then respond to dynamic, real-time, audience-driven Q&A.

5. You can also sign up here for a FREE ticket to witness ReInvent Law London, June 14, 2013. Each of our previous events have sold out – so sign up today!

Check Out – Open Law Lab (By Margaret Hagan – Student @ Stanford Law School). This is a welcome addition to the small but growing list below. However, this one is particularly important because it is entirely student created and driven!

Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz & Jonathan Zelner, Law as a Seamless Web? Comparing Various Network Representations of the United States Supreme Court Corpus (1791-2005) in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2009 - UAB Barcelona) < SSRN >